Arguments against integrated intranet solutions?

I did implement Discourse at a large organization (100000+ direct employees) and they already had a catch all intranet solution, with their own Forum-like thing.

I deployed Discourse alongside it, in a different domain as a shadow IT service.

After a few months it overtook the official forums organically, and 3 years later it’s still growing.

Key aspects for success in my experience:

After all, the best product will win. And the Forum solutions I had the displeasure to use in those big intranet systems aren’t great, to put it mildly.

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